Scientists from the French University of Provence (Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille I) in the course of research found out that the temperature is necessary to destroy the coronavirus. The result of the research was published in the bioRxiv electronic scientific library.
During the experiment, the researchers heated the
coronavirus cells to 60 degrees Celsius for an hour and found that after heat
exposure, some of its strains could multiply. The coronavirus completely died
after heating to 92 degrees for 15 minutes.
The scientists used African green monkey kidney cells infected with a strain of coronavirus from a patient from Germany. Scientists placed the infected cells in two test tubes, sterile and with biomaterial.
When heated in a clean environment, the viruses died, and in a non-sterile coronavirus, it was able to continue reproduction to the level necessary for human infection.
Earlier, scientists from the Canadian University of Alberta found that the drug remdesivir, designed to treat Ebola, can block the growth of coronavirus.
In turn, Australian scientists from Monash University and the Royal Hospital in Melbourne concluded that the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin, approved by the World Health Organization, reduces the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19 disease, in cells by 99%.
Scientists treated ivermectin with a cell culture infected with coronavirus. After 24 hours, the presence of the virus in it decreased by 93%, and after 48 hours it decreased by 5,000 times, the proportion of viral RNA decreased to less than 1%.
France is one of the European countries that has recorded a number of high cases. The current figure is 153,634, while the disease has claimed the lives of 29,142 people.
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